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  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    by Thomas Hardy, Michael Irwin, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and ... Read more

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  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    by Lewis Carroll, Michael Irwin, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at CanterburyThis selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and ... Read more

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  • The Skull and the Nightingale

    A Novel

    by Michael Irwin ...
    Michael Irwin’s The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England.When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously, the extremes of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Educating Boys

    by Michael Irwin ...
    According to the media and some concerned parents, boys are having greater trouble than ever with schooling. this book takes the refreshing counter position that boys are generally fine, and not inherently toxic creatures that need 'fixing'. What does need fixing, however, are some of the parenting and teaching practices and environments boys are placed in for schooling and social development. In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Picturing

    Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel

    by Michael Irwin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of ‘picturing’, exploring the principles and problems concerned, and sheds light on the workings of fiction — reassessing a number of famous ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Children and Adolescents in Trauma

    Creative Therapeutic Approaches

    by Diane Cook, Terry Bruce, Christine Bradley, Kedar Nath Dwivedi, Paul Caviston, Joanne Nicholson, Chris Nicholson, Jacqueline Marshal-Tierney, Michael Irwin, Jane Saotome ...
    Series series Community, Culture and Change
    Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, violence, self-harm and identity development. They ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    The Skull and the Nightingale

    by Michael Irwin ...
    Narrated by Steve West ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 2 min

    Michael Irwin’s The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England.When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously, the extremes of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Far from the Madding Crowd

    by Thamas Hardy ...
    The beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene has no shortage of suitors. She has managed to capture the attention of the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak, gentleman farmer Boldwood, and the seductive soldier Troy. Their fates hang on Bathsheba's choice, but she herself must discover the consequences of a fickle heart.Thomas Hardy's classic novel is brimming with spirited passion and cautious ... Read more

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  • The Great Gatsby

    Enriched edition. Exploring the illusion of wealth and love in the Roaring Twenties: A timeless American commentary on class dynamics and individual identity

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Imogen Whitfield ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is a masterful exploration of the American Dream during the Roaring Twenties, a period marked by excess and disillusionment. Through the eyes of the enigmatic narrator, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald employs lush, lyrical prose and vivid imagery to illuminate the opulence and moral decay of 1920s America. The intricate interplay of wealth, love, and social ... Read more

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    Dead Simple

    Meet Roy Grace in This Pulse-Pounding Crime Thriller from the Multimillion-Copy Bestselling Author

    by Peter James ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Roy Grace

    Unabridged

    11 hours 53 min

    Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman.It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead.With only three days to the wedding, Roy Grace is contacted by the man’s distraught fiancée to unearth what happened on that fateful ... Read more

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  • The Fault in Our Stars

    by John Green ...
    Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author ... Read more

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  • Anna Karenina

    Translated 1901 by Constance Garnett

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying enormous ... Read more

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